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Friday, May 12, 2006

McGuinty's Two-Tier Drug Plan Bad for Patients

NDP Leader Howard Hampton is sounding the alarm about Dalton McGuinty's two-tier cancer drug plan for Ontario. Under the plan, hospitals will administer life-enhancing cancer drugs for patients who can afford to pay - while people who don't have the money will have to go without.

In the Legislature, Hampton said therapeutically effective cancer drugs should go to all patients who need them, not just those who can afford to pay. “New Democrats believe in Medicare – in providing health care to every man, woman and child regardless of their financial status – not a two-tier system where the rich buy their way to the front of the line while everyone else goes without,” Hampton said.

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